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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8170068 | Method, apparatus, and system for data transmission and processing in a wireless communication environment According to one aspect of the present invention, a method is provided in which indications of signal quality associated with each of the plurality of user stations are received. Multiple user stations (e.g., a first user station and a second user station) are selec... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8085819 | Superposition coding in a wireless communication system The present patent application comprises a method and apparatus to compile a superposition coded packet by compiling user candidates for superposition coding, ranking the user candidates based on a result of an evaluation function, selecting a deserving user candida... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8050298 | Dual transmission stream generating device and method A digital broadcasting receiver and a stream processing method are provided. The digital broadcasting receiver includes a demodulator which demodulates a received transmission stream and an equalizer which equalizes the transmission stream, wherein the transmission ... | 11/01/2011 |
| 7782908 | Method and a feed circuit for feeding a stream of digital transmission data into a transmission medium having frequency suppression A feed circuit accepts a stream of digital payload data and inserts it at predetermined first positions into a stream of digital transmission data. The feed circuit generates supplementary digital data using the stream of digital payload data and inserts it at prede... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7623553 | Method, apparatus, and system for data transmission and processing in a wireless communication environment According to one aspect of the present invention, a method is provided in which indications of signal quality associated with each of the plurality of user stations are received. Multiple user stations (e.g., a first user station and a second user station) are selec... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7602817 | Low deviation field modulation for transfer of information An interface receives a packet stream associated with a source and a destination. The packet stream includes multiple packets, each packet including a header and a payload. A system generates a modulated stream for inclusion in the packet stream and performs a low d... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7428251 | Control and supervisory signal transmission system An intermediate station transmits a supervisory signal sent form a given controlled device to a controlled device associate with the given device as a control signal. An intermediate-station input unit extracts a supervisory signal, which is a current signal superim... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7403753 | Receiving system operating on multiple audio programs A receiver contains a demodulator system that can deliver a stream of digital data comprising at least a first and a second audio program. If a user selects the first audio program, the receiver applies a first bit rate decompression to generate a stream of decompre... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7342958 | System and method for enhancing throughput in an additive gaussian noise channel with a predetermined rate set and unknown interference A system for, and method of, determining channel throughput achievable under superposition coding given a finite, predetermined set of allowed transmission rates and a related system for, and method of, maximizing channel throughput. In one embodiment, the system in... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7340048 | System and method for directory services and e-commerce across multi-provider networks The present invention solves the problem of cross-provider access proprietary information between unaffiliated and competing network providers, but not allow that information to be disclosed to competing providers. The invention provides a system that allows increas... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7333456 | Training information transmission method in a block transmission system A method and system for transmitting training information in a block transmission system is provided. The method includes transmitting a first information bearing unit by at least one transmit antenna. The method further includes transmitting a second information be... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7319775 | Wavelet domain watermarks A wavelet domain watermark encoder and decoder embed and detect auxiliary signals in a media signal, such as a still image, video or audio signal. A watermark orientation signal is embedded in a wavelet decomposed signal to facilitate detection of the watermark in a... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7307943 | Mobile station, base station, communication system, and communication method A mobile station, and corresponding system and method, the mobile station including an IQ multiplexer configured to IQ multiplex transmission data for a data channel and control data for a control channel, and to generate a complex signal; and a transmitter configur... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7301960 | Apparatus for and method of control and communication of multiple stations in a TDM network A system for transmitting and receiving control data in a TDM communications network includes a single master TDM multiplexor and one or more slave TDM muliplexors. The master station stimulates the one or more slave stations, and only one station can transmit contr... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7289423 | Mobile station, base station, communication system, and communication method When a scrambler (54) performs IQ multiplexing of output signals from a spreader 52 and a distributor 53 in order to generate a complex signal (I signal and Q signal), amplitude coefficients βcc(I) and βcc(Q) are determined in accordance with ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7272368 | System and method for reduced deviation time domain FM/PM discriminator to achieve a reduced bandwidth frequency or phase modulation communications channels The present disclosure provides a receiver for receiving a narrow frequency deviation frequency modulated or phase modulated base band signal including a mixer for mixing the received narrow frequency deviation signal to generate an intermediate frequency signal, a ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7236503 | Short range RF communication for jet engine control A method transmitting a message over at least one of a plurality of radio frequency (RF) channels of an RF communications network is provided. The method comprises the steps of detecting a presence of jamming pulses in the at least one of the plurality of RF channel... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7209495 | Urgent messages and power-up in frequency hopping system for intemittent transmission A wireless telemetry system includes many radio transmitters using frequency-hopping carriers for intermittently transmitting very short messages indicative of status of stimuli associated with the transmitters. The transmitters can transmit independently of any rec... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7206878 | Voltage level bus protocol for transferring data A bus protocol that allows a master to transfer the same data to multiple devices at the same time. More specifically, the bus protocol uses a particular voltage level to identify whether a device should receive the data. A controller is used for programming the vol... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7190938 | Broadcast receiver A receiver for receiving a digital radio broadcast in which additional information is multiplexed with audio information includes a memory for storing the additional information, a liquid crystal display (LCD), and a bookmark button. When the bookmark button is depr... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7187276 | Power line communication system and method of using the same The fiber optic isolator of the present invention transports data signals between high voltage power lines and a communications interface device, bypassing a step down transformer to low voltage power. The communication interface device includes a low voltage power ... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7161993 | Method and apparatus for coding in a telecommunications system First and second transmission links are established with a remote station. An information signal is encoded to provide an encoded information signal having more bits than the information signal. First and second transmission signals are provided wherein each transmi... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7146450 | Control and supervisory signal transmission system for changing a duty factor of a control signal A parent station output section changes a duty factor between a period in which a control data signal is at a level (high-potential low-level) lower than a power supply voltage Vx but higher than high-level signal in other circuit portions and a subsequent period in... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7145863 | Mobile station, base station, communication system, and communication method A mobile station, and corresponding system and method, the mobile station including an IQ multiplexer configured to IQ multiplex transmission data for a data channel and a control data for control channel, and to generate a complex signal; and a transmitter configur... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7120092 | System and method for performing clock synchronization of nodes connected via a wireless local area network A clock synchronization method and apparatus is disclosed for use in a communication system including a plurality of wireless nodes communicatively coupled via a wireless network, each of the plurality of wireless nodes having a local time base, and one of the plura... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7102993 | Mobile station, base station, communication system, and communication method A mobile station, and corresponding system and method, the mobile station including an IQ multiplexer configured to IQ multiplex transmission data for data channels, control data for a control channel, and control data for an exclusive control channel for high speed... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7050603 | Watermark encoded video, and related methods Watermarks in video signals or the accompanying audio track are used to associate video objects in a video sequence with object specific actions or information. A video object refers to a spatial and temporal portion of a video signal that depicts a recognizable obj... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7042351 | Data communication over a power line Data signals are communicated between a power line and a computer, wherein the power line provides power to the computer via a distribution transformer and the computer is in communication with a wireless communication path. A first data signal is communicated with ... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7031258 | Digital data system with link level message flow control A digital data system comprises a plurality of links for passing messages between nodes, which may be end points such as memory or processing units, or intermediate or branch points such as routers or other devices in the system. A link level flow control is impleme... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7031370 | Spread-spectrum communication device An example spread spectrum communication system is provided in which a transmission signal is separated into an I-phase component and a Q-phase component. In a complex spreading portion, spreading is performed by using multipliers and adders together with a sequence... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7027466 | Multiplexer, demultiplexer and multiplex communication system An optical multiplex communication system includes a multiplexer and a demultiplexer. In the multiplexer, one of two modulated optical pulse train signals is attenuated by an optical attenuator so that amplitudes of the two signals differ from each other. Then, the ... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6987989 | Base station apparatus provided with array antennas In an array-antenna base-station apparatus 100, a relay-station apparatus 110 and a control-station apparatus 120 are connected with optical cables 140, 150, and, moreover, calibration of the whole apparatus 100 is performed to imp... | 01/17/2006 |
| 6967974 | Transmission of urgent messages in telemetry system A radio transmission system including many radio transmitters using frequency hopping carriers to intermittently transmit very short messages indicative of status of stimuli associated with the transmitters. The transmitters transmit transmissions independently of a... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6965262 | Method and apparatus for receiving high speed signals with low latency An apparatus and method for receiving high-speed signals having a wide common-mode range with low input-to-output latency. In one embodiment, the receiver includes an integrator to accumulate charge in accordance with an input signal during an integration time inter... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6960987 | Fire alarm system, fire sensor, fire receiver, and repeater Disclosed herein is a fire alarm system for connecting a plurality of fire sensors to sensor lines, and giving an alarm in response to fire information output from the fire sensor in a line unit. The fire alarm system includes a current modulation section and an add... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6961431 | Analog privacy scrambler and scrambling method A system and method for maintaining privacy in transmission of a high bandwidth analog signal. A preferred system and method breaks an input signal into bands and then uses Walsh codes to overlay many signals on top of each other with a set of phase modulators to es... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6961550 | Radio receiver that changes function according to the output of an internal voice-only detector A radio receiver includes a voice-only detection mechanism that detects when the current radio station is transmitting mostly voice, and that changes the function of the receiver depending on whether or not the current radio station is transmitting mostly voice. In ... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6957053 | Method for selection of a receiver tuning frequency Method for tuning the reception of radio broadcast signals to an FM RDS transmitter using program related data and transmitter related data and receiver executing the method, providing a band scanning search for detecting FM RDS transmitters exceeding a predetermine... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6954472 | Method and device of superimposing an additional information signal on a video signal and detecting said additional information from said video signal A method of superimposing additional information on a video signal, transmitting it, and detecting the additional information from the transmitted video signal. The additional information is synchronized with a sync signal in the video signal, and generated in N (Nâ... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6947769 | Radio base station device and radio communication method A base transceiver station includes a baseband signal processor outputting a frequency notification signal indicating a carrier frequency for modulating a baseband signal, in combination with a baseband signal and a radio transmitter and receiver modulating the base... | 09/20/2005 |
